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Gavster wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 11:04 am There’s a forum member who would happily let you sit and a Porsche and Ferrari if you can get to Berkshire

Ooh, is it one of those driving experience days ?

No, I just needed to move them out the way so I could get the Aston out of the garage

Having said all that, I do find myself drawn to wanting a tracker. Something like this looks reasonable - £60 for the unit then £60/year subscription.

https://www.trutrak.co.uk/product-page/ ... acker-payg

I probably wouldn’t want the car back, it just wouldn’t be the same. However I’d like the people caught. Probably wouldn’t pay £260 a year for a miniscule chance of that happening though 😂 I never really understood this concept, if I could have it back without cost then I'd happily have my car back...

I went on a once in a lifetime holiday.

I'm not doing that again.

Update to my 3G / tracker subscription quandary - I've just been playing around with insurance quotes (I'm with Admiral FWIW) and adding / removing a tracker makes exactly £0.00 difference. On that basis the LR tracker subscription @ £260pa despite being good value for a tracker is not good value ov...

End to end encryption has been effectively zero-cost for well over a decade; there's no excuse for this. The article does touch on that towards the end - that ten years isn't really that long in vehicle development. My car is 7 years old but the L405 came out in 2012 and the architecture would have...

Security stuff. Long article about CAN injection. I didn't really understand it. https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/ A Range Rover Sport that was stolen by cutting a hole in the tailgate to access the wiring. Either search instagram yourself to try and find a photo, or use the lin...

Interesting, Wokingham is listed as one of the councils banning cars >5m and that's local to me. Also interesting, the L405 is listed as being 4999mm :lol: Also also interesting, Wokingham won't grant parking permits for cars >5m https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/parking-and-transport/parking-and-permits...

“The incel El Camino”

I was looking at JLR paint codes. I’d like to report a hate crime.

That'll be about £50k.

Which one is quietest & comfortablest ? I'm not going to do 2000 miles of fun driving per year so I'll have to regard most of it as work and I want it to be as painless as possible. Do Singer do modern Porsches ? The aircooled ones are tiny (and feel like a Beetle) so they're a non-starter for n...

Hmm. It works well enough in steady traffic especially roadworks but more open motorway I think I’d prefer “dumb” cruise tbh. It actually encourages you to hog the middle or outside lane so that you avoid the trucks.

Yes. So their example would have been better if it was 7th -> 3rd. That’s definitely a difficult shift for the DCT. Actually, I wonder how that would work. Would it pop it into neutral to do the shift or does it somehow need to engage the other shaft, and thus forced to go via either 6th or 4th. Hmm...

It's an SDV8. Not sure if they came in different levels of tune. All 334 bhp by the looks of it There was a boost to the torque & an updated torque converter in 2015. The various car spec websites seem very hit & miss which figure they quote but there’s a few articles that describe it: http...

In addition, DCT’s only work in single-gear intervals. From 7th gear to 6th, to 5th, to 4th, for example. If the driver is in 7th gear and wants 4th for maximum power, the DCT cannot pre-select 4th gear directly. The driver has to pass through 6th and 5th gears, wasting time and power. Is that stri...

Uh ? Deliberate or rage farming ?

Weirdly out of proportion arms.

Fully selfishly, and on the assumption that we're going to get a Labour government, I'd like to know their plans for funding Defence. Not the headline hand waving soundbite stuff, but whether the £2bn programme I'm working on is going to get instantly canned

Oh look, my favourite dodgily-named luxury car dealer has a a Range Rover ! If it wasn't for the "rare" interior colour (their description not mine), and the fact I've just bought one, I'd be checking it out. Description says black but the photos look like a dark purple - I like it. https:...